choke element

Chapter 504

The soldier who was accused of urinating his pants in the battle yelled dissatisfiedly: "You guys usually say that you envy the hundreds of acres of land of Dinghai soldiers, but you still keep your mouth shut. Even if I, Li Dongmai, have a little less courage, twenty Are mothers worthless? You really underestimate people!"

"Shut up! Shut up, you!" Several soldiers came up and dragged that Li Dongmai away.

A small officer pretended to glance at Hou Zhongxin unintentionally, but Hou Zhongxin still looked ahead expressionlessly.

The junior officer whispered to his companions, and they all felt that this Song official was very calm, maybe he was really a big shot.

In fact, this kind of face is the basic quality of being an official in the Southern Dynasty. Hou Zhongxin's heart was filled with shock, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was turbulent.

Although Hou Zhongxin is an envoy, the situation in the Kingdom of Jin has been too chaotic in the past few years. Zhen Dexiu only walked around the border, and dared to brag about the domestic situation of Jin when he came back. What.Hou Zhongxin can only speculate on the situation of the Jin Dynasty in the Northern Dynasty based on his understanding of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.Therefore, he did not pay attention to the soldiers and horses of King Qin in Shandong.

The so-called imperial court summoning soldiers and horses from all walks of life to serve the king sounds majestic.

In fact, how embarrassing it must be for a court to fall to this point, the officials of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty are very clear.Everyone has not forgotten what the Kaifeng court looked like during the Jingkang period, and what the emperor Gaozong and his ministers looked like in Yangzhou, Jiankang, Hangzhou, Yuezhou and other places during the Jianyan period.

At that time, the Qin King's army seemed to be powerful, and most of them would be defeated at the first touch of a strong enemy. Even if there were heroes, they were subject to many difficulties and were not able to turn the sky.As a result, some of the king's army suffered bad luck and suddenly became a rebellious army and a rebel army.Hou Zhongxin also knew about those things.

At that time, Da Jin, with unimaginable bravery and cruelty, killed the Song Dynasty and threw away his helmet and armor, and abandoned thousands of miles of land and mountains, and hundreds of millions of people lived.Now that the law of heaven is reincarnated, Dajin is also threatened by a strong enemy from the north. His own country is exposed to the enemy's soldiers, and he begins to seek medical treatment in a hurry, counting on the kings everywhere.

This situation, in the eyes of Hou Zhongxin, even made him secretly happy, so much so that the hardships he experienced in the sea were nothing compared to it.

But now, Hou Zhongxin suddenly discovered something special.

The Shandong Ding Navy under the rule of Da Jin was strong enough to repeatedly defeat the powerful enemy in the north; and this army was obviously different from any army of Jin or Song.

Even the Jin people here in Zhigu Village know that these soldiers of Shandong Dinghai actually have land!Each of these soldiers has land!Moreover, as many as one hundred acres!They also have shade households!This is a serious arrogant soldier!
No wonder they were able to rival the Mongols, and it was so easy to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Red Coat Army.

No wonder the demeanor of these soldiers is full of arrogance.

I'm afraid they are not the humble and humble people of the Song Dynasty, and they are not the shaved soldiers who were forced to fill the ditch by the Jurchens in the Kingdom of Jin.

These people all have permanent property, and their status is obviously higher than that of ordinary people.They are the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty until the Tang Dynasty!It may even be the tooth soldiers of those feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty!
If his subordinates are like this, what kind of character will Guo Ning be?How many soldiers like this do he have under his command?How much territory does he have to support such soldiers and horses?How much authority does he have to be able to implement a strategy of raising troops that is completely different from Dajin's on his own territory?

Hou Zhongxin heard Guo Ning's name before, and thought that this person was Wang Bolong, Han Chang, Li Qiong and others, but now that he thinks about it, this person is probably more than an ordinary hero... Maybe he has to rely on Han Derang?

Good guy, our group set off from Huaidong, traveled across the sea along the way, had little contact with places, but almost missed such an important person!
In Hou Zhongxin's line of sight, the governor of Zhigu Village in the Kingdom of Jin, Jiagu Alihe, was nodding and bowing, accompanying an officer, turning around from the side of the camp.

The officer was in his thirties, with a dark complexion, but his demeanor was very calm, with two straight knives on his waist.Jiagu Ali talked to him a few words, saw Hou Zhongxin's figure, pointed at Hou Zhongxin, and said a few words to the officer.

The officer cast his eyes over him, he was neither humble nor overbearing, and he cupped his hands.The distance between the two was not far away. Hou Zhongxin noticed that there was a huge and terrifying scar on the back of his right hand. It was obvious that he was a real soldier who had fought tough battles.

Hou Zhongxin nodded subconsciously in return.

Jiagu Alihe was sweating all over his head, and ran over with his two fat legs like a windmill: "Deputy envoy Hou, this one is Chen Ran, the subordinate of Shandong Guoxuan envoy, who is in charge of the Dinghai army. You two, do you want to meet up?"

Hou Zhongxin walked all the way here because he wanted to meet the leader of the Ding Navy.

In his cognition, he is an excellent military attache who has led troops in Sichuan and Huaihe Rivers, and fought against the Jin army during the Kaixi period.In addition to being a soldier, he has also studied, and he can be said to be both civil and military. Now he bears the false title of Lizhou Observer, and is in front of the Privy Deputy.If he worked hard for a few years, he might not be able to become the commander of one party... With such experience and talent, it was easy to find out the background of a few military officials in the Kingdom of Jin.

But at this moment, he suddenly hesitated.

He felt that he didn't know the details of the Ding Navy at all, so if he talked about it rashly, would it be timid?Will the people in Ding Haijun underestimate Da Song?

His military experience is very rich, but because of this, he even had an absurd idea, thinking that the majesty of the Song Dynasty might be useless in front of such a real warrior.

Such soldiers, and even such an army, will only respect the truly strong.

Just look at the eyes of those soldiers!

Hou Zhongxin felt that he needed to adjust his mood, and it was best to discuss it with Ding Can, so as not to cause delays.

"Uh... don't do it for now. You go and tell this Chen Qianju, just say, I'm tired of thinking about crossing the sea. I don't want to disturb you. You might as well see you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow when you go together."

Hou Zhongxin didn't dare to underestimate the Ding Navy at all. When the two armies set off the next day, the performance of the Ding Navy continued to shock the envoys of the Song Dynasty.

Their total strength is no more than a thousand, and the military supplies shipped by ships are as large as an army of 5000 people.But they moved forward by land and water, and the speed of going up the Lushui River was astonishingly fast, as if from top to bottom, they had no scruples or fears at all.

The team went further and further north, and after passing through the destroyed Wuqing County, they encountered the Mongolian army more and more often.

In the vast barren beach and grassy desert to the east of Lushui, a large number of ranger skirmishers tried to approach the fleet every day.With Ding Can's literati's eyes, it can only be seen that all the enemies are extremely fierce.But Hou Zhongxin understood that they were not only aggressive, but also a well-trained army.

The officers of the Ding Navy said that these were not serious Mongolian troops, but grassland tribes attached to Mongolia, or the northern border defenders of the Kingdom of Jin who surrendered to Mongolia.

In the face of the enemy's attack, the Ding Navy used approximately the same size of troops to keep away from the river, go deep into the deserted beach, and start a dog-tooth battle with the enemy.

Several times, the enemy broke through to the vicinity of the fleet with nearly a thousand troops.There were also several times when the enemy troops in a whole area were wiped out, and Ding Haijun, who had returned from his retreat, put the refugees he recruited into the boats, and piled up the heads of the killed enemies by the river to form a Jingguan.

This kind of continuous and repeated battles can easily make people tired and slack, but the soldiers of the Dinghai Navy seem to be used to the intensity of war. Their proficient cavalry coordination and bow and arrow cover have never performed abnormally. Full of tenacity and fighting spirit.

The two armies fighting along the way were all strong soldiers. When they were about to reach Lu County in Tongzhou, even Ding Can clearly felt that such an army might not be comparable to the Huaidong Zhisi of the Song Dynasty.

So he became more and more cautious, urging the three sections of the regiment to strengthen their defenses every day, and urging the leader of the army to prepare the soldiers and the strong men recruited along the way. The Mongols must also guard against the arrogant soldiers of the Ding Navy.

But Hou Zhongxin was frequently sent out by him to inquire:

How many troops in the northern border of the Kingdom of Jin have defected to the Mongols?Are the Mongols more vicious than these armies?In the Ding Navy, how many soldiers and horses are there like this level of elites?What kind of status does your Guo Ning Guo Xuan envoy have in the Dajin court?
"Haha..." Chen Ran wiped the dust off his face and said, "Brother Hou, this is not something that can be explained clearly in a few words."

In the past few days, Hou Zhongxin has become very familiar with Chen Ran.Both of them didn't talk about their respective official positions, only their age.

"Look, the county seat and Shuiguan in Huyin County have also been destroyed. The imperial garrison has shrunk to Luxian County, Tongzhou. We are still [-] miles away from Luxian County, Tongzhou. Only when we arrive there can we join the imperial court."

"That's good!" Hou Zhong said, "Your army has helped us a lot. When we get there, um, after arriving in Zhongdu, we will definitely be in front of the emperor of Dajin, thank you all."

"Haha...it doesn't have to be like that."

(End of this chapter)